While state and federal lawmakers frantically push for massive mental health reform and sweeping gun control laws, two Connecticut mothers recently took to the streets of Newtown, connecting with ...

CCHR calls for a congressional audit of NIMH after decades of costly, brutal animal experiments, unpublished trials, and failed biomedical research, as U.S. suicide rates, disability, and psychiatric ...

Unanimous European rejection of forced psychiatric measures exposes a widening gap between U.S. mental health law and international human rights standards.

My book, The CIA Doctors, [i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. These papers ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT or “electroshock”) is a psychiatric procedure that is frequently used to treat depression and other mental disorders. Psychiatrists long ago got the idea that having a ...

“States need to seriously look at the harm being committed in the name of mental health care and the detrimental effects on both children and our education system.” — CCHR International Education is ...

With millions of people prescribed psychiatric drugs, clearly not everyone taking them (or in withdrawal) will experience violence, mania, psychosis or homicidal ideation. However, according to ...

“I have found psychiatrists abuse this generalized statement of a chemical imbalance of the brain as a way to prescribe these psychiatric drugs and a way to start the psychiatric revolving door, just ...

A landmark study has debunked one of the biggest mental healthcare marketing campaigns in modern history—that a “chemical imbalance in the brain causes depression” requiring antidepressants to correct ...

“The failure to address Lake Alice patient concerns for nearly half a century shows the stakes for failing to report child abuse must be made much higher—i.e., criminal penalties for failing to do so.

“Tragically, ‘I can’t breathe,’ which has become the uniting message in protests against police restraints, is an all-too common cry during restraint use in psychiatric hospitals and why the practice ...

November marks the 20 th anniversary of the Fight For Kids (FFK) campaign launched by the mental health industry watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR)—the longest-running ...